1. All this led some researches to believe that the Sergey Aksakov family originated from Tatars, despite having no relation to the Polish noble house.
10 Facts About Sergey Aksakov
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Sergey Aksakov was introduced to literature by his mother at an early age, and became especially fond of Mikhail Kheraskov's Rossiada and the tragedies of Alexander Sumarokov.
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Sergey Aksakov was educated at the Kazan Gymnasium and then, in 1805, at Kazan University, though he himself said he was ill-prepared for university education.
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Sergey Aksakov was distracted by his obsessive interest in the theater.
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Sergey Aksakov left the university in 1807, and the following year went to St Petersburg to take up government service, for which he was poorly prepared.
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Sergey Aksakov resigned from the civil service in 1811 and moved to Moscow, where he was active as an amateur in literary and theatrical life and published his first verse anonymously in 1812.
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Sergey Aksakov's eldest daughter Vera Aksakova who was born in 1819 was a noted author.
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Sergey Aksakov began publishing translations, reviews, and articles in the early 1820s, though his important work came much later.
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In 1843 Sergey Aksakov settled in the village of Abramtsevo, near Moscow, where he entertained writers including Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy and which was frequented by his Slavophile sons, Konstantin and Ivan.
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Sergey Aksakov married Olga Semyonovna Zaplatina who was the daughter of Major General Semyon Grigorievich Zaplatin and a captured Turkish woman.